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1960-1980 The Politics of Protest Section 1: The Student Movement and the Counterculture The Growth of the Youth Movement The Roots of the Movement Students.

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1 1960-1980 The Politics of Protest Section 1: The Student Movement and the Counterculture The Growth of the Youth Movement The Roots of the Movement Students for a Democratic Society Port Huron Statement Tom Hayden The Free Speech Movement Mario Savio The Counterculture Hippie Culture communes Haight-Ashbury District New Religious Movements Unification Church Hare Krishna

2 The Counterculture Declines Impact of the Counterculture Fashion Art pop art Andy Warhol Music and Dance Beatles Bob Dylan Jimi Hendrix Woodstock Section 2: The Feminist Movement A Weakened Women’s Movement feminism The Women’s Movement Reawakens Fighting for Workplace Rights President’s Commission on the Status of Women

3 Equal Pay Act Title VII Equal Employment Opportunity Commission The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan (1963) The Time is NOW National Organization for Women Successes and Failures Striving for Equality in Education Roe v. Wade The Equal Rights Amendment Phyllis Schlafly organized the Stop-ERA campaign The Impact of the Women’s Movement Section 3: New Approaches to Civil Rights Fighting for Greater Opportunity Affirmative Action Maynard Jackson

4 Challenges to Affirmative Action Allan Bakke Equal Access to Education busing Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education New Political Leaders Jesse Jackson Congressional Black Caucus Hispanic Americans Organize Cesar Chavez and the UFW Growing Political Activism La Raza Unida (the United People) bilingualism Bilingual Education Act (1968) Native Americans Raise Their Voices A Protest Movement Emerges Declaration of Indian Purpose

5 American Indian Movement Native Americans Make Notable Gains Section 4: Saving the Earth The Beginnings of Environmentalism Rachel Carson, Silent Spring The Environmental Movement Blossoms A Grassroots Effort Begins Earth Day The Government Steps In Environmental Protection Agency (1970) Clean Air Act (1970) Clean Water Act (1972) Endangered Species Act (1973) Love Canal Lois Gibbs Concerns Over Nuclear Energy fossil fuels

6 Three Mile Island The Consumer Movement Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act (1966)


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